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ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Dyslexic individuals have serious difficulties in learning to read, and several software programs have been developed to overcome them. Previous research studies found that in most cases, providing correct spelling and word recognition with greater ...
Nahla Aljojo
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An Arabic Optical Braille Recognition System
Technology has shown great promise in providing access to textual information for visually impaired people. Optical Braille Recognition (OBR) allows people with visual impairments to read volumes of typewritten documents with the help of flatbed scanners
Al-Salman, AbdulMalik +3 more
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A mixed orthography of the Maltese language : the Latin-Arabic alphabet [PDF]
The article outlines the history of the mixed Latin-Arabic alphabet which was utilised by a number of scholars to write the Maltese language between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Cassola, Arnold
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Beancounting Diversity in Business Schools
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Wafa Ben Khaled, Alessandro Ghio
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A nuclear families word list for French
Abstract This between‐languages replication study relates the development and testing of a nuclear, families‐based, pedagogical word list for French as was previously done for English. A word family includes base and inflected words (or lemmas) plus derivations.
Thomas Cobb +2 more
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The Cretan Script Family Includes the Carian Alphabet
The Cretan Script Family is a set of related writing systems that have a putative origin in Crete. Recently, Revesz [11] identified the Cretan Hieroglyphs, Linear A, Linear B, the Cypriot syllabary, and the Greek, Old Hungarian, Phoenician, South Arabic ...
Revesz Peter Z.
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Proposal for encoding the Javanese script in the UCS [PDF]
This is a proposal to encode the Javanese script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 5.2 in October 2009.
Everson, Michael
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Abstract Our research investigated how L2 and L1 reading, L1 low‐level skills and working memory are related to ratings and the linguistic characteristics (productivity, cohesion, lexical sophistication and diversity, syntactic complexity, and accuracy) of argumentative and narrative texts. The research was conducted in Hungary with 95 secondary school
Judit Kormos, Csilla Bartha
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